Standard Symptom Inventories for Asylum Seekers in a Psychiatric Hospital: Limited Utility Due to Poor Symptom Validity |
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Authors: | Douwe van der Heide Irena Boskovic Harald Merckelbach |
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Affiliation: | 1.Phoenix, ProPersona,Wolfheze,The Netherlands;2.GGZ Centraal,Ermelo,The Netherlands;3.Forensic Psychology Section,Maastricht University,Maastricht,The Netherlands;4.University of Portsmouth,Portsmouth,UK |
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Abstract: | We examined symptom validity in two samples (Ns = 27 and 35) of asylum seekers who had been admitted to a psychiatric facility. Considerable proportions over-endorsed atypical symptoms (63 and 83%, respectively) and underperformed on a simple forced-choice task requiring the identification of basic emotions (41 and 71%, respectively). Over-endorsement and underperformance were unrelated to Dutch language proficiency but were related to raised scores on standard symptom inventories commonly used to assess psychiatric symptoms of asylum seekers. This pattern of findings casts doubts on attempts to monitor symptom severity and treatment progress in psychiatric asylum seekers without taking symptom validity into account. |
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